ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -This feminist critic proposed that all female characters in literature are in at leastone of the following stages of development: the feminine, feminist, or female stage. A. Virginia Woolf.

Detailed explanation-2: -Elaine Showalter’s three phases of feminism: the “feminine” (women writers imitate men), the “feminist” (women advocated minority rights and protested), and the “female” (the focus is now on women’s texts as opposed to merely uncovering misogyny in men’s texts).

Detailed explanation-3: -This feminist critic proposed that all female characters in literature are in at least one of the following stages of development: the feminine, feminist, or female stage. 10. One archetype in literature is the scapegoat.

Detailed explanation-4: -Gynocriticism also examines the female struggle for identity and the social construct of gender. According to Elaine Showalter, gynocritics is the study of not only the female as a gender status but also the ‘internalized consciousness’ of the female.

Detailed explanation-5: -According to Showalter, feminist poetics is a term that creates a female framework which analyses the women literature and which further can be analysed by the women critics. It should develop new models based on the experiences of women alone.